A Study On Network, Embeddedness And Industrial Cluster Competitiveness

On the background of economic globalization, market competition has evolved from business development strategy to industrial clusters strategy. Industrial clusters, as an important form of regional economic development that has drawn worldwide attention, is becoming a new force in international competition, which has greatly improved regional economic development and the competitiveness of regional economy. Nowadays, both developed and developing countries are striving to build industrial clusters strategy, so as to establish highly competitive industrial zones and increase regional competitive advantages.With the development of cross-straits cooperation and exchanges, how to foster and individual developing strategy is becoming a significant task facing the decision makers of Fujian regional economy. In the past a few years, Fujian provincial government has emphasized the role industrial clusters play in enhancing regional economic power, and listed developing industrial clusters as one of its six strategies in developing West-Straits Economic Zone. Therefore, the study and discussion on how to improve Fujian industrial cluster competitiveness is a very pressing issue, which could bring about the theory and practical significance to Fujian when it deals with the opportunities and challenges growing in integration in the world economy ,strengths the size and strength advantage industries, enhances overall economic competitiveness, accelerates the industrialization , urbanization, and modernization process .Based on a review of clusters theory, this thesis discusses industrial clusters from the angle of network embeddedness and tries to make a systematic analysis on the relationship between network embeddedness and industrial clusters competitiveness and the influence of network embeddedness on cluster competitiveness.The first chapter is an introduction of the research background, significance and structure of this thesis. Chapter Two is a review of domestic and foreign theories on industrial clusters, including its definition, forming mechanism, classification and features. Starting from network organization, embeddedness, etc., Chapter Three analyses the forming, principal part and structure of clusters network and the three aspects of network embeddedness, and proves that industrial cluster is an embedded network organization. Chapter Four illustrates the positive effects of clusters embeddedness on clusters competitiveness from the respects of resource complimentarity, cost saving, elastic professionalism and innovation. At the same time, it also points out the negative effects of over embeddedness on industrial clusters. On the basis of the above analysis, the last chapter points out the problems in network embeddedness of Fujian industrial clusters and puts forward strategies and solutions on fostering network embeddedness of Fujian industrial clusters.